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Today Intel and QuTech published a paper in Nature demonstrating the successful control of “hot” qubits, the fundamental unit of quantum computing, at temperatures greater than 1 kelvin. "Our demonstration of hot qubits that can operate at higher temperatures while maintaining high fidelity paves the way to allow a variety of local qubit control options without impacting qubit performance.”The post Intel and QuTech Demonstrate High-Fidelity ‘Hot’ Qubits for Practical Quantum Systems appeared first on insideHPC.

In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team looks at the AI for Science program coming out of Argonne National Laboratory. "This is one of the biggest potential changes in our industry and well worth the investigation. But figuring out where AI fits into the traditional world of research and simulation is a difficult problem. Henry points out that nearly every grant proposal needs to include 'AI' in order to get serious consideration."The post Podcast: AI for Science appeared first on insideHPC.

Today Atos announced that a BullSequana X1000 at the STFC Hartree Centre is providing supercomputing power to assist in global computational drug discovery efforts to help combat COVID-19. "By using some of the capability of the Hartree Centre’s Atos BullSequana X1000, the team are accelerating this process and creating new drug structures to be simulated fully across Folding@home’s distributed compute power."The post Atos Supercomputer at Hartree Centre powers Coronavirus research appeared first on insideHPC.

Igor Sfiligoi from SDSC gave this talk at the ECSS Symposium. "I have recently helped IceCube expand their resource pool by a few orders of magnitude, first to 380 PFLOP32s for a few hours and later to 170 PFLOP32s for a whole workday. In this session I will explain what was done and how, alongside an overview of why IceCube needs so much compute."The post Bursting into the public Cloud: Experiences at large scale for IceCube appeared first on insideHPC.

Data—the gold that today’s organizations spend significant resources to acquire—is ever-growing and underpins significant innovation in technologies for storing and accessing it. In this technology guide, insideHPC Special Research Report: Modernizing and Future-Proofing Your Storage Infrastructure, we’ll see how in this environment, different applications and workflows will always have data storage and access requirements, making it critical for planning to understand that a heterogeneous storage infrastructure is needed for a fully functioning organization.The post insideHPC Special Research Report: Modernizing and Future-Proofing Your Storage Infrastructure appeared first on insideHPC.

NERSC recently unveiled their new Community File System (CFS), a long-term data storage tier developed in collaboration with IBM that is optimized for capacity and manageability. "In the next few years, the explosive growth in data coming from exascale simulations and next-generation experimental detectors will enable new data-driven science across virtually every domain. At the same time, new nonvolatile storage technologies are entering the market in volume and upending long-held principles used to design the storage hierarchy."The post NERSC Rolls Out New Community File System for Next-Gen HPC appeared first on insideHPC.

OnScale and LEXMA have partnered to create patient-specific digital twins that may accurately predict oxygen and blood flow in a patient’s lungs, helping doctors make critical decisions about ventilator and intubation requirements for COVID-19 patients. Each digital twin is patient-specific and built from a combination of medical images (for example from CT scans and X-rays) and thousands of simulations of lung airflow and blood flow using the LEXMA Moebius fluid dynamics solver running on OnScale’s Cloud Simulation platform.The post Project BreathEasy using Digital Twins of Lungs to Improve COVID-19 Patient Outcomes appeared first on insideHPC.

Today AMD added three new processors to its 2nd Gen AMD EPYC processor family. Targeted at HPC workloads, the new processors combine the balanced and efficient AMD Infinity architecture with higher speed “Zen 2” cores for optimal performance. “With our trusted partners, together we are pushing the limits of per core performance and value in hyperconverged infrastructure, commercial HPC and relational database workloads.”The post New 2nd Gen AMD EPYC Processors Target HPC Workloads appeared first on insideHPC.

In this video, Michele Taufer from the University of Tennessee describes how AI enabled by HPC allows researchers to study wildfire propagation which enhances predictions and mitigation. "One of the projects her team is working on looks at how to integrate aspects of soil moisture with wildfire simulations. HPC today and machine learning/AI enable us to identify those patterns and extract the knowledge. The data are generated, analyzed at the same time, and then the knowledge extracted by the data is re-injected into the simulation. Our POWER9 system that allow us exactly to do that."The post Video: Fighting Wildfires with AI and IBM Systems appeared first on insideHPC.

Researchers are using XSEDE supercomputers to help develop ocean waves into a sustainable energy source. "We primarily used our simulation techniques to investigate inertial sea wave energy converters, which are renewable energy devices developed by our collaborators at the Polytechnic University of Turin that convert wave energy from large bodies of water into electrical energy," explained study co-author Amneet Pal Bhalla from SDSU.The post Supercomputing Ocean Wave Energy appeared first on insideHPC.

The PASC20 conference in Geneva has been postponed to 2021. The new dates for the conference – PASC21 – are July 5-7, 2021, at the same location – the University of Geneva in Switzerland. "We hope that you will be able to join us next year for an engaging in-person event. We are pleased to announce that our plenary speakers have confirmed their availability for PASC21. Contributors whose submissions have been accepted for presentation at PASC20 will be given the opportunity to provide updated abstracts. Presenters and minisymposia organizers will be contacted separately to confirm their participation and the content of their presentations. Additionally, we foresee a call for new contributions in late 2020."The post PASC20 Conference postponed to 2021 appeared first on insideHPC.

The Department of Defense High Performance Computing Modernization Program (HPCMP) is using its supercomputing resources to support the federal response to the COVID-19 pandemic. "For the High-Performance Computing COVID-19 Consortium, the HPCMP offers access and technical expert support for the program's open research system, a Cray supercomputer with 15,000 cores. The platform is set up outside of the sensitive “official use only” environment and can easily support academics on short notice."The post HPCMP Supports the Fight Against COVID-19 appeared first on insideHPC.

The eX3 infrastructure allows Norwegian HPC researchers and their international collaborators to explore bleeding-edge hardware and software that will be instrumental to the coming generation of supercomputers. "Simula chose Bright Cluster Manager to provide comprehensive management of eX3, enabling the organization to administer its HPC platform as a single entity; provisioning the hardware, operating systems and workload managers from a unified interface."The post Podcast: Bright Computing forges eX3 at Simula Research Laboratory appeared first on insideHPC.

The European Programming Environment for Programming Productivity of Heterogeneous Supercomputers (EPEEC) is a project that aims to combine European made tools for programming models and performance tools that could help to relieve the burden of targeting highly-heterogeneous supercomputers. It is hoped that this project will make researchers jobs easier as they can more effectively use large scale HPC systems.The post EPEEC Project Fosters Heterogeneous HPC Programming in Europe appeared first on insideHPC.

This week the EU launched a new portal for PHIDIAS, a Horizon 2020 project for creating sustainable HPC data-powered services for the earth, atmospheric and marine data towards researchers, industry and public sectors. "The PHIDIAS site offers unique access point for any updates about the project, the future of HPC and any big data findings related to Earth Observation, Intelligent Screening of Satellite data and Ocean data management."The post Video: PHIDIAS project creates HPC data-powered services for earth science data appeared first on insideHPC.

Australian researchers working with Oracle Cloud and vaccine technology developed by local company Vaxine Pty Ltd are testing a vaccine candidate against the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic. "The team is headed by Nikolai Petrovsky, Flinders University Professor and Research Director at Vaxine. His team has tapped Oracle for technical collaboration, access to an expanded research community, and cloud infrastructure that helped enable the rapid design of the novel COVID-19 vaccine candidate."The post Flinders University targets COVID-19 vaccine with Oracle Cloud appeared first on insideHPC.

A joint project carried out by four Finnish research organisations has studied the transport and spread of coronavirus through the air. Preliminary results indicate that aerosol particles carrying the virus can remain in the air longer than was originally thought, so it is important to avoid busy public indoor spaces. This also reduces the risk of droplet infection, which remains the main path of transmission for coronavirus.The post Supercomputing the spread of the coronavirus in busy indoor spaces appeared first on insideHPC.

Lockheed Martin Space is seeking a Senior Level Unix/Linux Systems Engineer in our Job of the Week. "The coolest jobs on this planet… or any other… are with Lockheed Martin Space. We are seeking a Multi-Level Security Subject Matter Expert for Unix/Linux/SE Linux/HPC System Engineers-Developers-Administrators and Research and Development HPC program team."The post Job of the Week: Senior Level Unix/Linux Systems Engineer at Lockheed Martin Space Systems appeared first on insideHPC.

Los Alamos National Laboratory’s Efficient Mission Centric Computing Consortium (EMC3) recently welcomed its first international partner, the South African National Integrated Cyberinfrastructure System (NICIS). "We are pleased to collaborate with NICIS on experiences in deploying a scalable cool data storage tier. Sharing requirements, solutions and experiences on challenges in providing an efficient computing environment is an important part of EMC3,” said Gary Grider, division leader for High Performance Computing at Los Alamos.The post South Africa’s National Integrated Cyberinfrastructure System joins EMC3 Consortium appeared first on insideHPC.

Today MemComputing announced that its Xtreme Performance Computing (XPC) Software as a Service (SaaS) will be made free for evaluation to all researchers and developers working in response to the COVID-19 crisis. This initiative comes from MemComputing’s ambition to identify opportunities where its technology may aid the fight against the global pandemic. "MemComputing harnesses the power of physics to dramatically reduce compute times for today’s most complex computational problems associated with optimization, big data analytics, and machine learning. By providing a free evaluation of the MemCPU XPC SaaS, MemComputing hopes to accelerate the process of finding solutions to the COVID-19 crisis on a global scale."The post MemCPU XPC SaaS Platform available free for COVID-19 Research appeared first on insideHPC.

In this special guest feature, Janet Morss at Dell Technologies writes that the company will soon deploy a new flagship supercomputer at SDSC. "Expanse will deliver the power of 728 dual-socket Dell EMC PowerEdge C6525 servers with 2nd Gen AMD EPYC processors connected with Mellanox HDR InfiniBand. The system will have 93,000 compute cores and is projected to have a peak speed of 5 petaflops. That will almost double the performance of SDSC’s current Comet supercomputer, also from Dell Technologies."The post SDSC Expanse Supercomputer from Dell Technologies to serve 50,000 Users appeared first on insideHPC.

In this Let’s Talk Exascale podcast, Andrew Younge from Sandia National Laboratories describes the new SuperContainers project, which aims to deliver containers and virtualization technologies for productivity, portability, and performance on the first exascale computing machines are planned for 2021. "Essentially, containers allow you to encompass your entire environment in a simple and reproducible way," says Younge. "So not only do I have my container image that has my application and my entire software stack with it, I also have a manifest for how I got there. That’s a really important notion for many people.”The post Podcast: Accelerating the Adoption of Container Technologies for Exascale Computing appeared first on insideHPC.

Lubomir Riha from IT4Innovations gave this talk as part of the POP HPC webinar series. "This webinar focused on tools designed to improve the energy-efficiency of HPC applications using a methodology of dynamic tuning of HPC applications, developed under the H2020 READEX project. The READEX methodology has been designed for exploiting the dynamic behaviour of software. At design time, different runtime situations (RTS) are detected and optimized system configurations are determined. RTSs with the same configuration are grouped into scenarios, forming the tuning model. At runtime, the tuning model is used to switch system configurations dynamically."The post Video: Energy Efficient Computing using Dynamic Tuning appeared first on insideHPC.

Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced a plan to provide up to $30 million for advanced research in machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) for both scientific investigation and the management of complex systems. “This foundational research will help keep the United States in the forefront as applications for ML and AI rapidly expand, and as we utilize this evolving technology to solve the world’s toughest challenges such as COVID-19.”The post DOE Announces $30 Million for Machine Learning and AI Research appeared first on insideHPC.

Today ACM named Maria Florina Balcan of Carnegie Mellon University the recipient of the 2019 ACM Grace Murray Hopper Award for foundational and breakthrough contributions to minimally-supervised learning. “Although she is still in the early stages of her career, she has already established herself as the world leader in the theory of how AI systems can learn with limited supervision. More broadly, her work has realigned the foundations of machine learning, and consequently ushered in many new applications that have brought about leapfrog advances in this exciting area of artificial intelligence.”The post Maria Balcan to Receive Grace Murray Hopper Award for Significant Contributions to Machine Learning appeared first on insideHPC.

The SC20 WINS program offers a terrific opportunity for women in networking help build the SCinet at the conference, working side-by-side with the world’s leading network and software engineers and top network technology vendors. "WINS provides selected candidates with travel support, per diem and full access to the SC conference as part of SCinet, SC’s dedicated high-capacity network infrastructure. They join SCinet teams that coincide with their field of interest, where they work side by side with world-leading network and software engineers from diverse labs and universities, as well as top technology manufacturers, to create an incredibly fast, ephemeral network system."The post Why WINS Is an Ideal Opportunity for Women in IT Networking appeared first on insideHPC.

In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team looks at how supercomputers are being used to battle the coronavirus. "We discuss how the supercomputing community has joined the fight and the impact on the battle against the virus. We do our best to keep the conversation light, knowing that everyone out there is suffering from the virus – it’s the one thing we all have in common these days."The post Podcast: Supercomputers Battle Coronavirus appeared first on insideHPC.

In this video, Paul Isaacs from Linaro presents: State of ARM-based HPC. "This talk provides an overview of applications and infrastructure services successfully ported to Aarch64 and benefiting from scale. "With its debut on the TOP500, the 125,000-core Astra supercomputer at New Mexico’s Sandia Labs uses Cavium ThunderX2 chips to mark Arm’s entry into the petascale world. In Japan, the Fujitsu A64FX Arm-based CPU in the pending Fugaku supercomputer has been optimized to achieve high-level, real-world application performance, anticipating up to one hundred times the application execution performance of the K computer."The post Video: State of ARM-based HPC appeared first on insideHPC.

The HPC-AI Advisory Council and the National Supercomputing Centre in Singapore announced today that they have joined the global fight against COVID-19 by expanding the 2020 APAC HPC-AI competition to address education and applied learning towards accelerating bioscience research and discovery. "As part of the updated competition, student teams are now tasked to research, find and choose an HPC or AI application that can potentially be used as part of the global fight against COVID-19. Teams must demonstrate testing and benchmarking of the application, as well as explain how this application can best be accelerated. In addition, teams will also be required to focus on tuning and accelerating NAMD, a molecular dynamics code designed for high-performance simulation of large biomolecular systems."The post APAC HPC-AI Competition Expands to Address COVID-19 appeared first on insideHPC.

Hewlett Packard Enterprise announced today that HPE Financial Services (HPEFS) is designating more than $2 billion in financing specifically to help customers with their financial challenges stemming from the COVID-19 crisis, including cash-flow or liquidity issues. HPE Financial Services is also introducing initiatives including a Payment Relief Program to help customers acquire new technology and alleviate some of the financial strain as they navigate this uncertain climate. "This is a challenging time to lead a business. Today more than ever, IT leaders and CFOs play a central role in ensuring financial health while continuing operations”, said Irv Rothman, President and CEO of HPE Financial Services. “At HPE Financial Services, we are committed to helping businesses align their priorities from an IT economics perspective and provide them with concrete solutions so they can move forward.”The post HPE Financial Services Offers $2 billion in Financing and New Programs to Help Customers and Partners Weather COVID-19 appeared first on insideHPC.

In this video, Addison Snell from Intersect360 Research moderates a panel discussion on the El Capitan supercomputer. With a peak performance of over 2 Exaflops, El Capitan will be roughly 10x faster than today’s fastest supercomputer and more powerful than the current Top 200 systems — combined! "Watch this webcast to learn from our panel of experts about the National Nuclear Security Administration’s requirements and how the Exascale Computing Project helped drive the hardware, software, and collaboration needed to achieve this milestone."The post Video: What Does it Take to Reach 2 Exaflops? appeared first on insideHPC.

The ISC 2020 Conference in Frankfurt has been cancelled due to the global pandemic and instead will be broadcast as a virtual event. "It is with a heavy heart we announce our decision to cancel ISC 2020 in Frankfurt, Germany," writes the ISC co-chairs Martin and Thomas Meuer. "In its place we will offer a leaner version of the conference in digital form from June 22 to 24. It will be free so everyone in the HPC community can benefit from it. We will be revealing the program details in the coming weeks."The post ISC 2020 Conference Converting to Virtual Event Due to Pandemic appeared first on insideHPC.

Today NVIDIA announced that that company has become a shareholder in DFKI, one of world’s largest research centers dedicated to AI. "We want to provide infrastructure that’s a platform for both the German and the broader European industry,” said Andreas Dengel, Head of Research Department for Smart Data and Knowledge Services. “Our experience has shown that by putting apps on NVIDIA GPU clusters companies better understand what GPU acceleration can do for them.”The post NVIDIA Becomes a Shareholder in DFKI AI Research Center in Germany appeared first on insideHPC.

In this special guest feature, our friends over at Advantech takes a look at the shift to edge computing environments versus large, secure data centers, a trend in stark contrast to the other end of the spectrum where large cloud providers and on-premise data centers offer a wide range of computing, networking and storage options within carefully controlled environments. Ultimately, we need both based on their respective value. But if we look deeper into what lies between the two extremes, we find the hybrid – rugged systems that bring the high-performance data center computing power and functionality to the edge. Advantech is a global leader in the fields of IoT intelligent systems and embedded platforms.The post AI for Any Environment, All the Time appeared first on insideHPC.

The 25 Gigabit Ethernet Consortium, originally established to develop 25, 50 and 100 Gbps Ethernet specifications, announced today it has changed its name to the Ethernet Technology Consortium in order to reflect a new focus on higher-speed Ethernet technologies. "Ethernet is evolving very quickly and as a group, we felt that having 25G in the name was too constraining for the scope of the consortium,” said Brad Booth, chair of the Ethernet Technology Consortium. “We wanted to open that up so that the industry could have an organization that could enhance Ethernet specifications for new and developing markets.”The post Newly named Ethernet Technology Consortium Announces 800 Gigabit Ethernet Specification appeared first on insideHPC.

Today, Intel pledged an additional $50 million in a pandemic response technology initiative to combat the coronavirus through accelerating access to technology at the point of patient care, speeding scientific research and ensuring access to online learning for students. Included in Intel’s effort is an additional innovation fund for requests where access to Intel expertise and resources can have immediate impact. "We hope that by sharing our expertise, resources and technology, we can help to accelerate work that saves lives and expands access to critical services around the world during this challenging time.”The post Intel Commits $50 Million to Pandemic Response Technology Inititative appeared first on insideHPC.

"As the world’s attention has shifted to climate change, the field of AI is beginning to take note of its carbon cost. Research done at the Allen Institute for AI by Roy Schwartz et al. raises the question of whether efficiency, alongside accuracy, should become an important factor in AI research, and suggests that AI scientists ought to deliberate if the massive computational power needed for expensive processing of models, colossal amounts of training data, or huge numbers of experiments is justified by the degree of improvement in accuracy."The post The true cost of AI innovation appeared first on insideHPC.

Today RIKEN in Japan announced that the partially finished Fugaku supercomputer will be made available for research projects aimed to combat COVID-19. The installation of the new supercomputer began in December 2019, and it is scheduled to go into full-fledged open use in 2021. “To combat the global pandemic of the COVID-19 virus, we will rapidly provide access to the capabilities of Fugaku, leapfrogging its preparation, to accelerate the scientific process of diagnosis, treatment, as well as general prevention of infection spread, to contribute to the early termination of the pandemic.”The post Fugaku Supercomputer joins fight against COVID-19 appeared first on insideHPC.

Paulius Velesko from Intel gave this talk at the ALCF Many-Core Developer Sessions. "This talk covers efficient profiling techniques that can help to dramatically improve the performance of code by identifying CPU and memory bottlenecks. Efficient profiling techniques can help dramatically improve the performance of code by identifying CPU and memory bottlenecks. We will demonstrate how to profile a Python application using Intel VTune Amplifier, a full-featured profiling tool."The post Video: Profiling Python Workloads with Intel VTune Amplifier appeared first on insideHPC.

Researchers are using biophysical modeling and simulations on Jülich supercomputers to develop new brain tissue imaging methods. "When generating a detailed network model of the brain, nerve fiber crossings pose a major challenge for current neuroimaging techniques. Scientists at Forschungszentrum Jülich have now found that scattered light can be used to resolve the brain’s substructure like the crossing angles of the nerve fibers with micrometer resolution. For their studies, the researchers combined microscopy measurements and simulations on supercomputers."The post Jülich Supercomputers Power New Insights into Brain Imaging appeared first on insideHPC.

The Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC) will provide a new storage infrastructure for enhanced data analysis capabilities thanks to the PPI4HPC (Public Procurement of Innovations for High Performance Computing). "The proposed infrastructure includes a disk tier built on all-flash technology and spinning disk drives. It changes the way underlying physical drives are managed, accessed and rebuilt in case of failures in order to minimize the impact to the scientific applications. It is a High-Performance Analytics compute infrastructure to run data analytics operations with the latest Power microprocessors and NVMe PCIe local storage to accelerate the workloads."The post Barcelona Supercomputing Centre to Optimize Storage and Data Analysis with PPI4HPC appeared first on insideHPC.

A task force of NVIDIA computer scientists has joined the COVID-19 High Performance Computing Consortium, which brings together leaders from the U.S. government, industry and academia to accelerate research using the world’s most powerful HPC resources. "The consortium’s objective is to accelerate development of effective methods to detect, contain and treat the coronavirus. It will support researchers by providing access to 30 supercomputers with over 400 petaflops of compute performance."The post NVIDIA Adds GPU and AI Expertise to COVID-19 HPC Consortium appeared first on insideHPC.

A research team led by Berkeley Lab has developed a technique that could accelerate the design of artificial antibodies for biomedical applications – from sensing technologies that detect and neutralize infectious viruses and bacteria to the early detection of Alzheimer’s. "We can now readily build populations of rugged synthetic materials that can be engineered to recognize a potential pathogen,” said Zuckermann. “It is a shining example of biomimetic nanoscience.”The post New Library of Artificial Antibodies Could Target Pathogens With Molecular Precision appeared first on insideHPC.

In this video, Frank Ferro from Rambus examines the current performance bottlenecks in HPC, drilling down into power and performance for different memory options. "HBM2E offers the capability to achieve tremendous memory bandwidth. Four HBM2E stacks connected to a processor will deliver over 1.6 TB/s of bandwidth. And with 3D stacking of memory, high bandwidth and high capacity can be achieved in an exceptionally small footprint. Further, by keeping data rates relatively low, and the memory close to the processor, overall system power is kept low."The post Video: High-Performance Memory For AI And HPC appeared first on insideHPC.

In this Roadhouse podcast, Dr. Greg Bowman from Folding @ Home describes the how crowdsourced computing is being used to fight the coronavirus and how we can get involved. "We are excited to announce a new batch of small molecule screening simulations are now up and running on Folding@home! These simulations will help prioritize which molecules will be synthesized and assayed by the COVID Moonshot aiming to rapidly developing new therapies against the SARS-CoV-2 main viral protease."The post Podcast: How crowd-sourced supercomputing is helping fight COVID-19 appeared first on insideHPC.

"NERSC is a member of the COVID-19 High Performance Computing Consortium. In support of the Consortium, NERSC has reserved a portion of its Director’s Discretionary Reserve time on Cori, a Cray XC40 supercomputer, to support COVID-19 research efforts. The GPU partition on Cori was installed to help prepare applications for the arrival of Perlmutter, NERSC’s next-generation system that is scheduled to begin arriving later this year and will rely on GPUs for much of its computational power."The post NERSC Supercomputer to Help Fight Coronavirus appeared first on insideHPC.

South Dakota State University Division of Technology and Security is offering an exciting career opportunity as a Research High Performance Computer Specialist. We are looking for a creative and innovative professional to join us in the engagement of university research faculty and their collaborators, graduate research assistants, and laboratory personnel to identify, develop and implement appropriate high-performance computing solutions (application/parallel computing/programming) to problems impeding their research/diagnostic work.The post Job of the Week: Research HPC Specialist at South Dakota State University appeared first on insideHPC.

The Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center (PSC), a joint effort between Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Pittsburgh, has allotted computing time on its Bridges and Bridges-AI platforms for urgent COVID-19 computational research. These resources are available at no cost to scientists. "PSC is part of the COVID-19 HPC Consortium, which encompasses computing capabilities from some of the most powerful and advanced computers in the world. By contributing to this combined effort, the PSC aims to empower researchers around the world to accelerate understanding of the COVID-19 virus and the development of treatments and vaccines that will help to address infections and limit spread of the virus."The post Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center Resources Available for COVID-19 Research appeared first on insideHPC.

Satellite Data analyzed by scientists from ICHEC (Irish Centre for High-End Computing) using European Space Agency Sentinel 5-P satellite data shows evidence of Nitrogen Dioxide (NO2) emissions in a number of rural areas during February and March 2020. "ICHEC released imagery today, April 3 in which the scientists observed general reductions in emissions (blue areas of the maps) from the lower levels of activity in the economy due to COVID-19 but also observed a few spikes (red areas) on some dates, most likely associated with fires in rural areas."The post ICHEC: Satellite Data Indicates Illegal Burning in Rural Areas of Ireland During COVID-19 Shutdown appeared first on insideHPC.

Today the Compute Express Link (CXL) Consortium and Gen-Z Consortium announced a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) describing a mutual plan for collaboration between the two organizations. The agreement shows the commitment each organization is making to promote interoperability between the technologies, while leveraging and further developing complementary capabilities of each technology. "CXL technology and Gen-Z are gearing up to make big strides across the device connectivity ecosystem. Each technology brings different yet complementary interconnect capabilities required for high-speed communications,” said Jim Pappas, board chair, CXL Consortium. “We are looking forward to collaborating with the Gen-Z Consortium to enable great innovations for the Cloud and IT world.”The post CXL and Gen-Z Consortiums to Collaborate appeared first on insideHPC.